Programs Enhance Hobby
Of Amateur Genealogy

By

Walter S. Mossberg

Updated March 12, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

L IKE MILLIONS of people, I've been collecting information on and off over the years on all of the branches of my family, trying to construct family trees, obtain documents and photos, and interview elderly family members. I still remember as one of my greatest thrills the moment I found at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., a copy of the handwritten ship's manifest recording the arrival on these shores of my paternal grandfather from what is today Ukraine.